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An Ulsterman posted to India

And of course no troops were needed in Bombay, we were all required in the far side of India towards Burma....

Hollywood during the war

We were sent to New Jersey, Chicago and to San Diego and for a while stayed with Mrs Buchannan at 211 Lemon...

All In A Day's Work

An R.A.F. corporal came, collected seven of us and took us to a Dakota plane already loaded with supplies;...

RAF in Burma

Born on 17th August 1904 in North Ormsby, Middlesborough, brought up by his aunt - my husband's...

Under the Red Eagle

Its squadrons were a mix of British, South African and Australian airmen- No. 3 and 450 squadrons RAAF, No....

The Ruhr Tour

The whole area of Dortmund, Wuppertal, Dusseldorf, Essen and Cologne, the heart of German industry and its...

A survivor without trying!

The Fickle Finger of Fate

Battle of Arnhem Flight Lieutenant Douglas MacDonell. I was stationed near London and Douglas was at Down...

My ATC Flights

As a 15 year old in 1944 I joined the ATC and kept a flying log — my first recorded entries were...

'Fight for the Fuhrer, fight to the last man.'

If it was a very important station, Berlin perhaps, we had three on it, and we called that a 3-tier or...

Edinburgh Training and passing out

There were 24 of us in our flight, supervised by a Flt Sgt and Flt Lt. There was one incident in...

Snaefell Disaster, Isle of Man, 1 January 1940

At around 11:25am on 1 January 1940, an RAF 7 Squadron Handley Page Hampden P1260 A 4-seater bomber on a...

WARTIME EXPERIENCES OF KENNETH POTTS DFC

Mrs. Patricia Coleman, who at that time was married to Kenneth Potts, has a letter from the crew member...

Follow the man with the pitcher

On 11th November 1943 a Halifax bomber took off from Yorkshire on a bombing mission over German occupied...

My War - Part 2

Following calling at Freetown, we arrived two weeks later in Durban where our youngest airman asked the...

By the seat of our pants

We operated out of Le Mans for about 3 weeks but had little or no success against the enemy as there was...

A4354030 - 608 & 48 Squadron RAF

He thought he would be out of things after that and was sent to a unit near Oxford taking bombs and...

The Story of an Engine Fitter (Ground Crew)

This is a wartime story of my late Father, Anthony John Prescott born in 1920 at Sandgate in Kent he was...

Unlucky Thirteen!

I was working at Hull City Wireworks when the war started and spent the first few months down at the docks...

Another one for the Caterpillar Club

Anson ’plane crash on Epsom racecourse

Anson ’plane crash on Epsom racecourse. On the strength of my knowledge at the time, I can confirm...

How low can you fly!!!

My story concerns one of my eldest brothers, Michael Potier a flight lieutenant in a bomber command RAF....

RAF Regiment on D-Day

But the ORBs for the squadron he was transferred to in August 1944 gives the following account which...

The Day that My Number Nearly Came Up

I had noticed that an electrician was also in the cockpits checking the bomb fusing circuits in a similar...

Memories from the RAF

The CO was Squadron Leader Bader - the legless pilot, he was very famous... We landed in Suez and were...

Escape of the dancing pilot

This is the story of my father Rowland Thomas Williams aged 19. It is the story of my father "being...